Light plane crashes in Midlands

Emergency officials have responded to another light aircraft crash incident in the province.

They were called out to the Midlands this afternoon after an aircraft went down near Michaelhouse.

It's the fourth emergency involving aircraft in KZN in less than two weeks.

A man and a woman died when a light aircraft crashed three kilometres from Greytown last Friday.

Earlier that same day, a plane made an emergency landing on the beach near Virginia Airport in Durban.

The occupants were uninjured.

Late last month, an aircraft crashed near Margate Airport. Occupant - Hazel Nash from Pinetown - died at the scene while the pilot passed away in hospital a few days later.

Netcare911's Chris Botha says the occupants in the latest incident managed to escape unscathed.

"It's believed that this light aircraft came down in the veld," he said. "There was severe damage to the plane, the one wing, but fortunately there was no one injured in this crash. So the pilot actually did quite a phenomenal emergency landing."

- East Coast Radio